How do you feel about physician-assisted suicide ?

It is legal where I live, with very specific guidelines; it has to be part of the person’s advance directive, but the person must be terminally ill and facing death within a relatively short amount of time.

Some people want to extend its reach to emotional or mental illnesses, like clinical depression. Occasionally I’ve seen people here express support for including such conditions.

I always want to ask them, "would you be okay if it were your child or a young person you care about who wanted a doctor to help them suicide due to depression ?"

Because I know that would break my heart and I would be trying to save my niece or my godchildren in that instance. 😭

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HumanEarth · F

I wouldn't want to be that old dog suffering that can't walk, can't go bathroom, and can't eat without a use of machines or meds, but my owners refuse to take me out to the woods for the one last walk and shot me and put me out misery.

They rather see me suffer in pain for their personal reasons.

So if people can their pets to sleep AKA physician-assisted suicide, why not for humans?

I've already told my kids to take me out woods for the that last walk.

I refuse to government and big pharma bullshill. I came into world all natural and that's how I plain on leaving it. Not in some nursing home or hospital hooked up to to a machine.

I'm already started making my plans and making my peace. My kids won't have nothing to worry about.